Quote Originally Posted by gschwendt View Post
What's strange is that it was working perfectly fine on Sunday. Then, I've been out of town up until today (with the heat off in the house if that factors in) and it starts acting up today... first sign of any defect.
My first two froze while playing a game and stopped working after I rebooted. The last time is just randomly stopped after I had tried to play for the first time in 3 days. They're notorious for breaking a LOT, but unlike Microsoft, Sony is just really good at covering up just how often that happens. If you have a phat, I'd suggest possibly getting a new slim. The newer slims have bluray drives that are actually manufactured by Sony and are said to be much better even though the 3rd system that I had the issue with was a slim. I've had my current slim for a few months and it's already starting to make clicking noises.